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Christopher Ricks

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Also known as Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks

British literary critic and scholar (born 1933)

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Born
1933
Works
22

Top works

  • Dylan's visions of sin
  • Tennyson's methods of composition
  • English drama to 1710
  • The Faber book of America
  • State of the language

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Quotes

  • When a language creates – as it does – a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
  • Taste, discretion, and decision have, one likes to think, been exercised so as to manifest the variety of an age's poems, the felicitous heterogeneity, the diverting diversity, and the buoyant resistance which a world of poems will always put up even to the best literary historian's summary justice.
  • [T]o travesty or to calumniate the Victorians is still such a cheap holiday.
  • Inerrancy about one's own powers is not a mark of the Victorian poets, nor even is a simple prudence about not over-reaching or over-archaizing. The Victorian poetaster over 'weens'.
  • Great Britain was Victorian for two-thirds of a century. Things changed and counterchanged; even the Queen often proved a surprise, though it may be thought that she was a surprise like a Browning character, by being even more herself than one would ever have anticipated.
  • Any anthologist of the unparagoned achievement that is English poetry must enjoy the pleasure, privilege, and responsibility of being for a while the master of its ceremonies. Or of being, at any rate, in the rueful Americanism, kinda humble and kinda proud.

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date of birth
1933-09-18
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